So here we are, two weeks before pitchers and catchers. Johan Santana is going to the Mets, and it looks like Coco Crisp and Jacoby Ellsbury will try and peacefully coexist in center field…
As a rule, MLB conducts background checks on all umpires, but the investigations were intensified last year when NBA ref Tim Donaghy […]

Some day I will stop writing “2007″ for the year…
So Johan Santana will be a NY Met for the 2008 campaign and beyond–and I could not be happier. They are in desperate need of help, the Sox did not have to give up anyone valuable (nor take a multiMULTI million $ contract) and the Skanks […]

So the Sox have given up 2 minor league pitchers to the ChiSox for pitcher David Aardsma, a 1st round draft pick in 2003, he did well at the beginning of 2007 (1st 14 appearances: 2-0 with a 1.31 ERA), but then ended up with some pretty sucky numbers to end the season (Last 10 […]

Holy Buckets!
Thursday, June 12, 2008, 7:05 pm Section 20, Row 16, Seats 1 & 2
Yep, those would be MY tickets to Mecca itself, Fenway Park–Whooo Hoo! After a 2 year hiatus, I will be returning to the greatest baseball field on earth….

So the Skanks spent nearly a quarter of a BILLION dollars for a team that could not even get out of the 1st round of playoffs? The numbers came out yesterday–Not only did the Skanks waste a TON of money, they blew the doors off the record for most spent by a team in a […]

We all know Trot signed a 1 year contract with Cleveland last year, when the Sox decided to go and get a more expensive (and less productive) right fielder in JD Drew. And, at this point, Cleveland has not offered an extension to Trot, nor has anyone else. And, the Sox are still looking for […]

Once again, NO news–I go to the Boston newspapers online and there is nothing since Sunday! All they are running is AP feeds….
And their biggest news there is that Albert Pujols is mad and cranky (so what else is new??) about the whole steroid brouhaha and refused to let a reporter and camera man play […]

It’s hard to believe that in 3.5 weeks, Pitchers and Catchers will report to Fort Myers, FL to begin the 2008 campaign…and then about 5.5 weeks after that, the Sox will play their 1st game of the season in JAPAN. That makes a total of 9 weeks until we have meaningful baseball…YUK….It was better when […]

Finally!
A little more stuff to talk about today, especially with everyone who was in town for the Boston Baseball Writers Awards Dinner last night…
Mike Lowell, in town to receive the Thomas A. Yawkey Award at the dinner, weighed in on a bunch of topics, most controversial the proposed blood test for HGH. The proposal is […]

Holy Buckets! This is going to be torture….The good news is that for Red Sox and Oakland Fans (Are there actually any Oakland Fans???) the 2008 campaign begins a week earlier. The bad news is that 1st pitch is 6:07 AM on March 25 and 26…and if you are an Oakland fan that translates into […]